Ganshik: Korea

Ganshik is the Korean word for a snack: food eaten between meals. This box fills those hours with Korea's everyday favourites.

A Look At This Month's Box

In Korea, the word for a snack tells you when, not what. Ganshik, 간식, means food between meals: the biscuit on the bus, the noodles after a late study session, the sweet set out when someone visits.

Pink drawstring pouch with a multicoloured patchwork diamond and knotted tassel ties.

Bokjumeoni

Luck You Can Carry

Bok means luck and jumeoni means pouch. Traditionally sewn from silk and tied with a knotted cord, the bokjumeoni is given at Seollal, the Lunar New Year, as a wish for a good year ahead. Keep yours for something small that matters.

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Did You Know

Second Only to Vietnam

South Koreans eat about 79 servings of instant noodles each a year, second only to Vietnam. Plenty of it isn't dinner: it fills the gaps, late at night or at a convenience-store counter with hot water on tap.

Discovering Ganshik: Korea

The Snacks Inside This Month's Box

Every snack below comes in the Feast box. The ones tagged Feast only aren’t in the Taste box. Tap or hover over a snack to see its ingredients and allergens.

Crushed Pear Juice

Crushed Pear Juice

The Original Since 1996

Crushed Pear Juice

Haitai htb

Sweet Asian pear ground into a mellow, pulpy drink with tiny bits of real fruit — give the can a good shake before you open it.

Calories

116 kcal

Common Allergies

None — May Contain Traces Of: milk, buckwheat, peanut, soy, wheat, peach, tomato and sulphites

Ingredients

Purified water, sugar syrup, pear purée (12%; pears from Korea 83.3%, China 16.7%), flavouring, DL-malic acid, vitamin C.

FlavorPear
DietVegan
OriginSouth Korea
Cantabile Fruit AdeFeast only

Cantabile Fruit Ade

Named for a Singing Tempo

Only in the Feast box

Cantabile Fruit Ade

Dongseo Well Being

Café-style fruit ade in a drinkable pouch, best poured over ice — you'll find either tangy green grape or tropical double mango.

Calories

Green Grape 110 · Double Mango 140 kcal

Common Allergies

Barley (Green Grape only)

Ingredients

GREEN GRAPE: water, sugar, white grape concentrate (0.81%), citric acid E330, malt extract, artificial flavour (green grape), trisodium citrate E331, sucralose E955, colours (tartrazine E102, brilliant blue E133). DOUBLE MANGO: water, sugar, mango concentrate (7.9%), artificial flavour (mango), citric acid E330, xanthan gum E415, trisodium citrate E331, sucralose E955, sodium metaphosphate, colours (tartrazine E102, sunset yellow E110).

FlavorGreen Grape · Double Mango
DietVegan
OriginNorth Gyeongsang, South Korea
Mango Konjac Jelly

Mango Konjac Jelly

Just 4 Calories a Pouch

Mango Konjac Jelly

Heechang Dairy for Intake (Sugarlolo)

A squeezable konjac jelly with a bright, tropical mango flavour — bouncy, slurpable and sweetened without a grain of sugar.

Calories

4 kcal

Common Allergies

None — May Contain Traces Of: milk, soy, egg, wheat, peanut, buckwheat, tomato, walnut, sulphites and peach

Ingredients

Purified water, erythritol (sweetener), konjac powder (0.1%), mango concentrate (mango 100%) (0.1%), carrageenan, vitamin C, citric acid, trisodium citrate, calcium lactate, dextrin, gellan gum, xanthan gum, sucralose (sweetener), other processed product (konjac powder, gum arabic, locust bean gum, agar, guar gum, ammonium phosphatides), flavouring.

FlavorMango
DietVegan (V-Label certified) · Sugar-free
OriginSouth Korea
Kancho Choco

Kancho Choco

A Korean Favourite Since 1984

Kancho Choco

Lotte Wellfood

Bite-size biscuit balls stamped with little cartoon characters, each hiding a pocket of chocolate cream — crisp on the outside, soft in the middle.

Calories

160 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy, Milk, Almond, Peanut

Ingredients

Wheat flour, sugar, blended vegetable oil (palm oil, palm kernel oil, glycerin esters of fatty acids, natural tocopherol), cocoa mass, cocoa preparation (whole milk powder, cocoa mass), palm olein oil, lactose (milk), raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), dextrin, almond powder, processed whole milk powder (whey powder, butter oil, lactose, palm oil, milk cream, sodium caseinate, potassium phosphate, glycerin esters of fatty acids, nature-identical milk flavour), salt, artificial flavours (vanilla, butter), soy lecithin, yeast preparation (dried yeast, wheat flour), caramel colour, protease preparation (protease, vegetable glycerin), propylene glycol, peanut powder.

FlavorChocolate
OriginSouth Korea
Baked Potato Sticks

Baked Potato Sticks

Cooked Over a Grill Rack

Baked Potato Sticks

Haitai Confectionery & Foods

Thin, crunchy sticks made from potato starch and dried potato, with a buttery, lightly salty flavour — like a potato fresh off the coals.

Calories

130 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy, Milk — May Contain Traces Of: beef, pork, tomato and shellfish (including oyster)

Ingredients

Potato starch plus (potato starch, potato starch 2 (potato)), processed starch product (tapioca starch, sugar, refined salt), mixed edible oil (palm olein oil, palm oil, rosemary oleoresin), dried potato powder, cereal processed product 1 (wheat flour, glutinous rice, starch), margarine (palm oil, processed oil, palm olein oil, rapeseed oil, processed butter), shortening, starch, sugar, starch, processed condensed milk, processed sugar product, refined salt, sea salt, cereal processed product 2, acidity regulator, mixed preparation (artificial flavour, other processed product (lactose, dextrin), glucose), cream extract, acidity regulator, emulsifier, nutrient fortifier, guar gum, flavouring oil, nutrient fortifier, asparaginase.

FlavorButtery Potato
OriginNorth Chungcheong, South Korea
Bronoir Brownie Cookies

Bronoir Brownie Cookies

Named After Film Noir

Bronoir Brownie Cookies

Cheongwoo Food

A golden chocolate-chip cookie with a dark, fudgy brownie hidden inside — break one open and the cocoa-rich centre is the whole point.

Calories

75 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy, Egg, Milk, Hazelnut — May Contain Traces Of: peanut

Ingredients

Wheat flour, chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, mixed milk powder, hazelnut paste), shortening (palm oil, spice oleoresin), sugar, polyglycitol syrup (sweetener), dark compound (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, glucose, whey powder), vegetable cream, D-sorbitol syrup (sweetener), whole egg, sugar, shortening, fructose syrup, acidity regulators, milk-containing processed product, emulsifier, refined salt, vanillin.

FlavorChocolate Brownie
OriginGyeonggi, South Korea
Organic Rice Puffs

Organic Rice Puffs

Made for Tiny Hands

Organic Rice Puffs

Ivenet

Nothing but organic Korean white rice, puffed and never fried — so light and plain they melt the moment they touch your tongue.

Calories

18 kcal

Common Allergies

None — May Contain Traces Of: egg, milk, buckwheat, peanut, soy, wheat, mackerel, crab, shrimp, peach, tomato, sulphites, walnut, squid, shellfish (oyster, abalone, mussel) and pine nut

Ingredients

Organic white rice (Korea) 100%.

FlavorPlain Rice
DietVegan · Certified Organic
OriginBusan, South Korea
Grace Peanut CookiesFeast only

Grace Peanut Cookies

Crown's Cookie Since 1985

Only in the Feast box

Grace Peanut Cookies

Family Foods for Crown Confectionery

Chunky, rounded cookies made with real peanut paste — sweet, nutty and satisfyingly crumbly in the old-fashioned way.

Calories

214 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Peanut, Beef, Egg — May Contain Traces Of: milk, soy and walnut

Ingredients

Wheat flour, sugar, shortening (palm oil, palm olein oil), peanut paste (peanut), sugar, whole egg, acidity regulators, refined salt, mixed preparation (purified water, sorbitol, glycerin esters of fatty acids, propylene glycol, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, sugar), vitamin E.

FlavorPeanut
DietNot vegetarian — contains beef
OriginNorth Jeolla, South Korea
Sweet Potato SnackFeast only

Sweet Potato Snack

Crunching Since 1973

Only in the Feast box

Sweet Potato Snack

Nongshim

Crinkle-cut sticks made with real sweet potato and pumpkin, flecked with black sesame — sweet on the first crunch, gently salty on the next.

Calories

250 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Sesame, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: crustaceans, fish, tree nuts, peanut, egg and milk

Ingredients

Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid), sweet potato, sugar, palm oil, corn starch, canola oil, fructooligosaccharides, pumpkin powder, salt, black sesame, yeast extract powder, artificial flavour, mono- and diglycerides, rosemary extract, tocopherols (antioxidant), natural flavours, citric acid.

FlavorSweet Potato
OriginSouth Korea
PeperoFeast only

Pepero

Korea Gives These Away Every 11 November

Only in the Feast box

Pepero

Lotte Wellfood

Slim biscuit sticks dipped in chocolate — or, in one version, filled with it instead. You'll find one of four flavours: original chocolate, almond, white cookie or choco filled.

Calories

Original 240 · Almond 170 · White Cookie 160 · Choco Filled 229 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Barley, Milk, Soy, Peanut, Almond, Coconut, Sulphites — May Contain Traces Of: beef and egg

Ingredients

SHARED STICK (Original, Almond, White Cookie): wheat flour, sugar, palm shortening (palm oil, palm olein oil, mixed tocopherols E306), whole milk powder, processed butter (milk cream, coconut oil), grain product (whole wheat, non-glutinous rice, glutinous rice), malt extract, acidity regulators (sodium phosphate E339iii, ammonium bicarbonate E503ii, sodium bicarbonate E500ii), salt, high fructose corn syrup, enzyme preparation (glycerin, water, papaya extract, sodium metabisulphite E223), yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate E491). ORIGINAL: chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, processed oils (palm oil, sunflower oil, palm kernel oil, lecithin E322, mixed tocopherols E306), lactose, cocoa preparation (whole milk powder, cocoa mass), lecithin E322, artificial flavours (chocolate, vanilla), PGPR E476, almond powder, peanut powder), corn starch, artificial flavours (perm bread, vanilla). ALMOND: almond, processed oil (palm oil, sunflower oil, lecithin E322, mixed tocopherols E306), cocoa preparation (whole milk powder, cocoa mass), cocoa mass, lactose, lecithin, PGPR, artificial vanilla flavour, vitamin E, almond powder, peanut powder. WHITE COOKIE (HALAL): vegetable cream (palm oil, high-oleic sunflower oil, sugar, lactose, whole milk powder, whey permeate, lecithin E322, mixed tocopherols E306, PGPR E476, artificial fresh cream and sweet flavours, diced peanut, almond powder), cookie chips (wheat flour, sugar, palm oil, cocoa powder, glucose-fructose syrup, whey powder, whole milk powder, salt, natural vanilla flavour, sodium bicarbonate E500ii, lecithin E322), vanilla flavour (propylene glycol E1520, vanillin, triacetin E1518, acetoin, decanoic acid). CHOCO FILLED: semi-chocolate filling (sugar, vegetable shortening (interesterified palm kernel and palm stearin oils, hydrogenated palm stearin and palm kernel oils, palm fraction oil, soy lecithin E322), cocoa preparation (whole milk powder, cocoa mass), cocoa mass, blended edible oil (palm oils, glycerin esters of fatty acids E476, mixed tocopherols E306), mixed milk powder (skimmed milk powder, whey powder), soy lecithin E322, PGPR E476, artificial flavours (vanilla, vanillin), almond powder, peanut powder), wheat flour, corn starch, vegetable shortening (palm olein oil, palm stearin oil, hydrogenated rapeseed oil, mixed tocopherols E306), sugar, processed condensed milk (water, sugar, whole milk powder, lactose), high fructose corn syrup, palm olein oil, malt extract, salt, acidity regulators (sodium bicarbonate E500ii, sodium hydroxide E524), artificial flavours (perm bread, vanilla), soybean oil, sugar powder mix (granulated sugar, powdered sugar (sugar, corn starch), mixed milk powder, coconut fat powder (coconut oil, corn syrup, maltodextrin, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin E322, vanillin, ethyl vanillin, ethyl maltol, dextrin, calcium phosphate, silicon dioxide, trisodium citrate), salt, potassium phosphate E340iii, yeast extract, stevia (steviol glycosides, dextrin E1200, glucose), disodium 5'-ribonucleotides E635).

FlavorOriginal · Almond · White Cookie · Choco Filled
OriginSouth Korea
Haitai strawberry French Pie pastry on a scalloped dish beside its red and white wrapper.

French Pie Strawberry

Baked in Korea Since 1982

French Pie Strawberry

Haitai Confectionery & Foods

Flaky pastry folded into sixty-four layers and striped with sweet jam made from Korean-grown strawberries — it shatters into golden crumbs at every bite.

Calories

60 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Beef, Milk, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: egg and peanut

Ingredients

Wheat flour, margarine (interesterified palm stearin oil, interesterified coconut oil, palm stearin oil, soybean oil, beef tallow, processed butter), sugar, wheat flour, starch syrup, glucose, sweetened strawberry (strawberry, sugar, vitamin C), sweetened apple (apple, sugar, pectin, vitamin C), margarine (hydrogenated oil), mixed edible oil, salt, shortening, lecithin (soybean), flavouring, locust bean gum, pectin, amidated pectin, citric acid monohydrate, colour blend (berry colour, red cabbage colour, safflower yellow, gardenia red, purified water), xanthan gum, red cabbage colour.

FlavorStrawberry
DietNot vegetarian — contains beef fat
OriginSouth Chungcheong, South Korea
Crispy Roll 21 Grains

Crispy Roll 21 Grains

Sixteen of the Grains Are Korean-Grown

Crispy Roll 21 Grains

Sangil Food for No Brand (E-Mart)

Rice, corn, beans and barley rolled into thin, hollow tubes with a milky, lightly sweet crunch — soft at the first bite, then crisp all the way through.

Calories

58 kcal

Common Allergies

Milk, Egg, Wheat, Buckwheat, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: peanut, pork, sulphites, walnut, chicken, beef, pine nut, shellfish, tomato and squid

Ingredients

Palm olein oil, white rice flour, whey powder, corn powder, powdered sugar (raw sugar, starch), maltodextrin, brown rice flour, wheat flour, black rice, glutinous rice, naked barley, pressed barley, adzuki beans, black soybeans, seoritae black soybeans, buckwheat, egg yolk powder, barley flour, compound seasoning, refined salt, lecithin, sorghum, foxtail millet, proso millet, small black soybeans (yak-kong), peas, Job's tears (adlay), mung beans, kidney beans.

FlavorSweet Milky Grain
OriginGyeonggi, South Korea
Mini Yakgwa

Mini Yakgwa

A Sweet Once Called Medicine

Mini Yakgwa

Hojeong Food

Flower-pressed wheat dough, fried and soaked in rice syrup and cinnamon until dense and chewy — the sweet Koreans set out for holidays and honoured guests.

Calories

35 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: peanut, egg, sulphites, pine nut, walnut and milk

Ingredients

Wheat flour, corn syrup, soybean oil, sugar, glutinous rice (1.6%), grain syrup (rice), refined salt, cinnamon, raising agent (sodium acid pyrophosphate E450, sodium bicarbonate E500, corn starch), other processed product, emulsifier, noodle alkaline agent (sodium bicarbonate E500, wheat flour), natural spices.

FlavorSweet Cinnamon
OriginSouth Jeolla, South Korea
Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers

Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers

From E-Mart's No Brand Shelf

Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers

URC Snack Foods for No Brand (E-Mart)

Crisp calcium crackers flecked with parsley, pressed around a salty-sweet peanut butter cream — the kind of snack that vanishes one after another.

Calories

52 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Milk, Soy, Peanut

Ingredients

Biscuit: wheat flour, palm oil, sugar, tapioca starch, raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate E503, sodium bicarbonate E500, sodium acid pyrophosphate E450), calcium carbonate E170, refined salt, whole milk powder, dried parsley, flavour enhancer (monosodium glutamate E621), butter, flavouring (propylene glycol E1520, cheese powder, flavouring), soy lecithin E322. Filling: peanut butter (peanuts, sugar, peanut oil, vegetable fat, refined salt), sugar, palm oil, maltodextrin, whey powder, lactose, soy lecithin E322, flavouring.

FlavorPeanut Butter
OriginSeoul, South Korea
Jin Ramen Spicy packet beside a bowl of noodles topped with egg, greens and sliced chillies.

Jin Ramen Spicy

A Korean Pantry Staple Since 1988

Jin Ramen Spicy

Ottogi

Chewy wheat noodles in a fiery red broth with garlic, black pepper and dried vegetables — ready in minutes and hotter than it looks.

Calories

507 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy, Fish (tuna)

Ingredients

NOODLES: wheat flour, starch, palm oil, potato starch, wheat gluten, salt, emulsifying oil, acidity regulator, garlic extract, yeast. SOUP BASE: salt, sugar, garlic powder, soy sauce powder, glucose, yeast, spices, hydrolysed vegetable protein, chilli extract powder, red pepper, black pepper, mushroom extract, flavour enhancer, soybean paste, tuna extract. VEGETABLE FLAKES: Chinese cabbage, vegetable protein, carrot, spring onion, mushroom, red capsicum.

FlavorSpicy
DietNot vegetarian — contains tuna extract
OriginSouth Korea
Our Tea Kombucha Lemon

Our Tea Kombucha Lemon

The Zing of Freshly Squeezed

Our Tea Kombucha Lemon

Jardin (Roastique)

A sugar-free kombucha powder made with organic green tea and lemon — tip a stick into cold water for a bright, tangy glass in seconds.

Calories

10 kcal

Common Allergies

Milk, Soy, Fish (collagen) — May Contain Traces Of: egg, buckwheat, peanut, wheat, mackerel, shrimp, crab, tomato and peach

Ingredients

Anhydrous citric acid, DL-malic acid, erythritol (sweetener), kombucha powder (15%) (dextrin, organic cane sugar, organic green tea (Korea), anhydrous citric acid, yeast), sodium bicarbonate, flavouring (lemon), indigestible maltodextrin, lemon-lime concentrate powder (3%) (lemon concentrate (Israel)), black tea powder (Kenya), steviol glycosides (sweetener), potassium carbonate, sucralose (sweetener), mixed preparation (syrup, natural flavouring), flavouring (lemon), mixed lactic acid bacteria (17 strains), heat-treated lactic acid bacteria, low-molecular fish collagen peptide, hyaluronic acid preparation (hyaluronic acid, dextrin).

FlavorLemon
DietNot vegetarian — contains fish collagen · Sugar-free
OriginSouth Chungcheong, South Korea
Noodle Snack Chicken

Noodle Snack Chicken

Made to Be Crushed, Not Cooked

Noodle Snack Chicken

Pacific Food Products for No Brand (E-Mart)

Crinkly noodle pieces fried until crisp and dusted with a savoury chicken-style seasoning — a salty, crunchy handful straight from the bag.

Calories

119 kcal

Common Allergies

Wheat, Soy — May Contain Traces Of: milk, peanut, crab, shrimp, squid and shellfish (oyster, abalone, mussel)

Ingredients

Wheat flour, palm oil (palm oil, antioxidant (butylated hydroxytoluene)), refined salt, chicken flavour seasoning (1.8%) (yeast extract, maltodextrin, sugar, wheat flour, soy sauce powder, refined salt, DL-malic acid), flavour enhancer (monosodium L-glutamate), disodium 5'-guanylate, disodium 5'-inosinate, white pepper powder, sugar, sodium polyphosphate, potassium carbonate.

FlavorChicken
DietVegan — chicken flavour, no chicken
OriginSeoul, South Korea
Surprise Cultural KeepsakesFeast only

Surprise Cultural Keepsakes

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Surprise Cultural Keepsakes

Little pieces of the culture, chosen for you to discover and keep.

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